Topic:cat

A mischievous cat enjoys his lazy day on a city windowsill until a small canary across the street catches his eye and works up his appetite. From director Nicolas Bianco-Levrin, this is Minoule (2014).

If you've ever been licked by a cat, did their tongue feel scratchy like sandpaper? The scratchiness is caused by their keratin papillae, tiny claw-like spines on their tongue that help to clean their fur. Cats (Felis...

Cat meowing is not exclusively how cats vocalize. Meowing is a special kitten behavior meant to catch the attention of their mother, and not the language that they normally speak while out and about with other cats. I...

Not only do we love this short promo by Animade.tv for Marion Deuchars' book Let's Make Some Great Fingerprint Art, but we like the book, too. In the tradition of Ed Emberley, Deuchars inspires kids (and adults) to in...

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, keep a closer eye on your cats because they just may have an agenda that you haven't noticed before. This time lapse video by Mitsuru Yasui is an illuminating mini-epic that revea...

In May 2014, snow leopard twins Orya and Okara were born to mom Dshamilja and dad Villy at Switzerland's Zoo Zürich. In August, above, the sisters were filmed frolicking, falling off of hillsides, gnawing on meat, and...

"There are no cats quite like New York City bodega cats—if only they could talk. Well, now they can."
This charming series by Amy Pearl and Jennifer Hsu chronicles the lives of New York City Bodega Cats In Their...

"Jaguars are already one of the world’s most endangered species, but one of the two cubs on display at Zacango Zoo in Mexico is even more rare because it is melanistic. That means the animal appears completely...

A zipline, a spring, and a frozen salmon have made grabbing a bite to eat a lot more fun for the Oregon Zoo’s cougars. Zoo Keeper Michelle Schireman explains how this new device exercises their powerful apex pr...

Imagine building a mechanical character from a computer program that could calculate the size and positioning of gears in order to make that character’s motions come alive. The team at Disney Research have designed an...

Les Talons Rouges (The Red Heels), a student film directed and animated by Olesya Shchukina.
Related watching: Her Shoes, and two videos about cats jumping: gravity defying cat and do cats always la...

Small, light, and quick, the cheetah-cub robot is a robust little experiment in robotics and biomechanics from EPFL, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, one of two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology. Fr...

Though they’ll grow to be predators someday, there are currently 3 lion cubs, a tiger cub and a hyena cub — all under six months old — that are enjoying an unusual friendship. Travel to the Akwaaba ...

Cheetahs on the Edge—Director’s Cut from Gregory Wilson, who was a part of the team who captured these stunning slow motion shots of cheetahs running:
Cheetahs are the fastest runners on the planet. ...